Pleurothallis acuminata (Kunth) Lindl. 1842 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Lindley 1859 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Full ShadeCool Cold Spring

Common Name The Gradually Tapering Point Pleurothallis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of [500] 2000 to 3200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 5 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, oblong-elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, rounded to acute to apiculate, cuneate below into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, erect to suberect, subdensely many flowered, 2.8 to 9.2" [7 to 23 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe.

Synonyms Anathallis acuminata (Kunth) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Anathallis asperilinguis (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Anathallis brittonii (Rolfe) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Anathallis racemosa Barb. Rodr. 1877; *Dendrobium acuminatum Kunth 1816; Humboldtia acuminata (Kunth) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia aurea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia acuminata (Kunth) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia asperilinguis (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia aurea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis asperilinguis Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854; Pleurothallis aurea Lindl. 1843; Pleurothallis aurea var. asperlinguis (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Foldat 1959; Pleurothallis brittonii Rolfe 1907; Pleurothallis nigro-hirsuta Kraenzl. 1905; Pleurothallis ochroleuca Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis racemosa (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Specklinia acuminata (Kunth) Lindl. 1835; Specklinia asperillinguis (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as P asperlinguis; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as P asperilinguis drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P asperlinguis drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis asperlinguis; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis brittonii; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo similar; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 as P asperlinguis; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis acuminata; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis asperlinguis; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis brittonii; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia acuminata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia asperlinguis; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Anathallis acuminata

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